Ongoing Activities

In honor of his teacher and the founder of Yangtro Choling Retreat Center, Khentrul Rinpoche commissioned a life-size statue of Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche, designed according to his own specifications. The statue, weighing one tonne, could not be transported by any conventional means to the remote site of Neding and was brought up by helicopter. The

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It was early in the morning, high up in the mountains of Yolmo, and the first sun rays slowly warmed my freezing face. I was standing in the open space of the valley of Palmothang. Although tired, the frost layered ground was too cold to sit on. The sky was crisp and clear, the air

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The first group entered retreat from 2016-2019: eleven people started, and six people conclded successfully. The second group 2022- 2025: first fourteen people stayed for one year in retreat, then seven people completed the entire three years. They were Tamang, Managi, and Yolmo Sherpa. They practiced mainly in the Konchog Chidu tradition but also studied

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Are you interested in spending time in Neding? Neding has ten retreat rooms and two retreat huts for short term retreatants or visitors, in addition to a three year retreat building for eight participants. You may meditate in Chatral Rinpoche’s house, in the common lhakhang (temple), in your retreat room, or in plain nature. The

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“Neding is held in the arms of Mother Yangri,” the famous yogi Chatral Sangye Dorje Rinpoche once said about his favorite forest hermitage. Nestled in a forest clearing presided over by a mountain named for the protector goddess Ama Yangri of Yolmo (the indigenous name for Helambu, an area in the southern reaches of the

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